Treason Thread #74: DOGE Day Afternoon

Time to take this to the streets.

The American people hold great power. Protests work. Make them BIG.

Great title, OP. It appears you put a lot of thought into it.

And DDA portrays one of the very first transsexuals on film, played by Chris Sarandon, ex husband of possibly the most-hated-living-actress on DL.

So many connections to our current time!

The boomers who a lot of people scorn here, stopped The Vietnam War. I was one of them. To the young - get off your phones and do something. STOP TRUMP!

Love the title, OP! Bravo!

Dear Maggie rationalizing Trump’s behavior again. The spinning never stopped.

[quote] Haberman also highlighted Trump’s tendencies as a leader, both in terms of his “mercantilistic approach”—wherein he fears the U.S. is being “ripped off” by other countries, even if they are allies—and his admiration for strongmen like Putin.

Mercantilistic approach? Is that the term for Trump handing over to Putin all he wants?

Maggie Haberman is such a wart on the face of true journalism. She is a undercover PR shill with her familie's connections to Dump.

People are getting pissed and getting loud. IT’S ABOUT TIME! This is Roswell Georgia

Great title OP.

One of my favorite films ever, & Pacino was a fucking God in it.

SUCH great acting. Absolutely better than Scar Face.

I get the feeling Elon and Trump know what they're doing is unpopular:

"The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk’s private security detail, giving them certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement agents.

People close to Trump’s White House have been taken aback by the scale of security that has surrounded Musk since he became a regular presence in Trump’s orbit last year."

Why is this white boy from South Africa who wants to make us believe white people in SA are being racially discriminated against looking like your run of the mill rapper now?

Reps like McCormick will just stop having live town halls. Because people are being mean to them.

A "town hall" is something that happens in a real democracy. And we can't have that sort of thing now, can we?

R9, notice how that Congressman keeps referring to probationary employees as “duplicitous” instead of “duplicative.” I doubt he knows the difference.

These fucking hick idiots. “I’m a doctor! I know what I’m talking about!”

I hope the majority of the most angered voices in that town hall were MAGA voters. This is what you voted for, you stupid assholes.

The Stupid Witch of the South.

I sure wish I didn't just click a link to M. Blackburn's account.

R9, and X.com is censoring links to live footage of the town hall where he gets booed

A former Soviet intelligence officer has alleged that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.”

Maggots LOVE Russia now, r18.

It’s Canada they hate.

Republican Lawmakers Fear They'll Be MURDERED If They Go Against Trump

R18's article did not come up for me, but it's been well documented. Check out books, magazine articles and substacks written by Sarah Kendzior, Greg Olear, and Craig Unger.

[quote][R18]'s article did not come up for me,

The article has been scrubbed from The Daily Beast, where it originated, and Yahoo News.

The original Krasnov was a Nazi.

Byline Times

Everyone knows that Trump is a Russian asset at this point. It would only be surprising if it were revealed that he WASN’T one.

I fear for Zelensky's safety.

R22, in this interview, Sarah Kendzior discusses the importance of print journalism and keeping paper copies of everything. She lists various examples of many important articles being scrubbed from the internet. It's happened to her.

[quote]I fear for Zelensky's safety.

NY Post today:

Yeah. The NY Post yesterday cited a "source close to Trump" who suggested that “the best case for [Zelensky] and the world is that he leaves to France immediately.”

Please, CBS, hold your ground...

It's not news by now that Trump was cultivated as a Russian (the Soviet) asset in about 1987.

It's news that there is convincing confirmation,

Thing is, too many Americans are unaware of South Africa's history of apartheid and how it informs that country's native son, Elon Musk.

Where the hell is SA-born comedian/political commentator Trevor Noah and why isn't he speaking out?

Orange traitor with the Pee Pee fetish.

Interesting how fast Trump administration priorities switched from deporting undocumented immigrants to firing air traffic controllers and data scraping Department of Treasury and Social Security Administration files.

Pretty much everything Dump has done has one upside—to Putin.

Trump's honeymoon period lasted less than a month, which is unprecedented.

The stock market fell more than 700 points today as consumers sour on the economy and inflation worries surge. It's all bad news for Trump and Republicans.

Speaking of the KGB...one of the DOGE tweens is the grandson of a KGB agent

R33, it's my belief they want planes to crash. They want Americans to fear leaving getting on planes to leave the country. They want non-Americans to fear flying into this country. It makes it easier for them to follow thru with their plans if we're all distracted by the mayhem surrounding us.

Soon the new epidemic will start to spread rapidly. Bird flu? Measles? A new strain of Covid? All of the above, probably. Putin loves Anniversaries, so I'm gonna predict March 30, 2025 as the date the shit really starts to hit the fan. That would be the 5th Anniversary of the first Covid lockdowns.

Former Proud Boys leader, who was pardoned by Trump, arrested for beating up counter protesters outside the US Capitol

AP sues Trump for violating their First Amendment rights

Like to see what the Supremes have to say about that.

This kind of stuff makes a difference to voters.

Do you remember the episode of Seinfeld when Kramer spots Joe DiMaggio in Dinky Donuts? He later spots DiMaggio in a diner. Kramer keeps trying to get DiMaggio’s attention by making small “whoops!!” And slamming his hand on the table. I would LOVE to see a reporter with nerves of steel - when Trump is next showboating and and taking questions in the Oval Office - I would love a few reporters to call out “Kasnov!” How long would it take for Trump’s head to jerk up and respond?

[quote]Reps like McCormick will just stop having live town halls.

You called it, R13.

"Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods."

Lindsey Graham will not hold town hall meetings in South Carolina. That’s been happening for a long time. In fact, Lindsey avoids even setting a foot in the state. Graham spends way more time in Israel than in South Carolina.

South Carolina should consider itself lucky.

[quote] Graham spends way more time in Israel than in South Carolina.

I don't blame him. I've never seen as many attractive guys in one place as when I was in Tel Aviv.

On a lighter note...

[quote]r46 = I've never seen as many attractive guys in one place as when I was in Tel Aviv.

Pentagon to fire more than 60,000 people, many of whom are veterans

"Roy Cohn and Trump were lovers"

^Well known in NYC social, business, and legal circles.

DJT is as prissy as they come.

Supreme Court Makes First Major Ruling on Trump Acts

What's the significance of the color yellow among MAGA? I see them on television wearing yellow caps and donald is wearing a long, bright yellow necktie today.

I am curious...

Celebrating jaundice?

R53 Trump & cult are really into pee pee.

Another MAGA Congressman gets roasted at his town hall

Judge blocks Trumps crackdown on DEI programs, says it violates 1st Amendment

Feb 28th

Loser's still losing after all these years.

Guess the cost cutting doesn't extend to self-congratulatory ads.

"The Department of Homeland Security has budgeted up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads in the United States and overseas that repeatedly thank President Donald Trump for leading an immigration crackdown."

He's addicted to that Murdoch/Fox/Advertising/Marketing/Analytics.

A real dictator only needs in-house propaganda, but our Donald is a celebrity, he is a star who women let grab their pussies because of it.

He is one fragile dictator...

Speaking of begging to have one’s poosie grabbed….

R33, they're looking for ITIN numbers. Those are the SSNs of migrant/temporary workers so they can pay tax while they're working in the US. People legitimately coming in, picking fruit, then returning to Mexico/Latin America after the season is over.

There are hundreds of thousands of these people who have done that for years. They get an ITIN so they can be legitimately here and working. It's their temporary ID. They can't collect social security or anything. It's just for tax and employer purposes.

They're looking for these people to target them for deportation once the picking season starts.

Now Trump and Musk are extorting Ukraine

Which is why, R60, we need giant billboards in Times Square for all the tourists, foreign and red state domestic, can read the truth of this president's antics this summer.

Fight fire with grease fire.

^ to read the truth

I know this will come as a shock to you, but it appears Elon may be lying about DOGE's accomplishments. DOGE’s website reports a total estimated savings of $55 billion, but the accounting is riddled with errors. For example:

Contracts that had not yet been awarded

Instances where a single pot of money is listed multiple times — tripling or quadrupling the amount of savings claimed

Purchase agreements that have no record of being canceled, but were instead stripped of language related to diversity, equity and inclusion

Contract savings identified by DOGE that do not match with records they refer to in the Federal Procurement Data System

Contracts where the underlying document is for an entirely different contract

WaPo: Musk today sent an email to all federal employees, telling them they must submit an accounting of their work week or else lose their jobs.

"Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation," said a post on X from Musk.

And who’s reading all of that shit? That’s got to be hundreds of thousands of pages every week. I bet you could download some words and it will be fine, since I bet no one on DOGE gives a shit about reading it.

R69, Musk and his team will set up some program to look for some keywords in the responses and use the presence or absence of them as a pretext to fire tens of thousands more employees.

Maybe Trump should explain what he does besides golfing and tweeting

26 top billionaires who donated to Trump.

^ The list does not even include Elon Musk who dumped millions into Trump‘s campaign and related PACs last fall. He has a formidable entourage of technical gurus with the capabilities of tampering with voting machine codes from afar. I haven’t seen proof of that, and few have been talking about it. That said, they would also have the skills to hide whatever intrusions they made with the voted systems. I hope that did not happen, but one can wonder.

Trump at CPAC: Jimmy Carter died a happy man because I was elected

“Jimmy Carter passed away recently, and he passed away a happy man. He was a happy man when he passed away because he said, ‘It’s not even close. Joe was the worst.’ And believe me, I have to clean up the mess. I’m cleaning up the mess, and it is a mess. On the border, with inflation to go over – every single thing he touched turned to shit. Okay? Everything. It’s true.”

Happy to start a gofundme to pay legal fees for the first reporter who asks Trump if he fucked Roy Cohn...

R75 legal fees? More like medical expenses. Trump will have one of his personal secret service police shoot him.

President Dotard lies so brazenly and easily and laughably. And magats believe it.

FCI, you mean lies like this???

[quote]I don't blame him. I've never seen as many attractive guys in one place as when I was in Tel Aviv.

Amen, R46.

I was there for a week and was hard the entire time.

If this is legit, one of Obama's 2022 tweets is resurfacing.

If this site had an edit button, I'd delete my post at R80, as it's been debunked.

It may be debunked, but I wonder if Krasnov has a Russian Diplomatic Passport.

Краснов Первый!

Thank God. Glad some country has common sense

Yay, Germany!

Thank you for kicking those Nazis in the cuntbone!

You rock, Germany!! Yes!!

"They stole the Election. The AfD did win, and won big! We're going to make Germany to do a hand recount, and we will hunt down all those fake German voters!

For a moment I thought the new German chancellor’s name was Fred Mertz.

Please confirm: so the election result in Germany is good news?? I thought I misunderstood and a strong right faction still won. Thanks.

r88, it basically is!

The far right party got 20%, coming in second, R89. It's the highest percentage a far right party has gotten in Germany since WWII, though, so still worrisome.

Musk lies as much as Trump, no wonder they get along.

In response to Carville R93....so what? Even if correct, a helluva lot of damage can and probably will be done within the next 30 days. I am terrified what condition this country will be in by April 1st.

Elon and Trump don't need an administration. They've got Stephen Miller to advance the policies and The Proud Boys to violently keep protesters in line.

Bomb Threat Made at Principles First Summit; Will FBI & ATF Conduct The Necessary Investigation?

Carville, liked Michael Moore, is almost always wrong.

Two relics from the past whose time has come and gone

Far right conspiracy whacko Dan Bongino named Deputy Director of the FBI

No, this isn't a joke

I don't know if Kirschner discussed this in his video, but I'm gonna cut and paste a portion of Heather Cox Richardson's letter that I receive in email form every evening. That f'king scumbag Enrique Terrio. Read what he did:

llThen, on February 21, a number of people pardoned after committing violent crimes, including Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio—who was sentenced to 22 years in prison—and Proud Boy Ethan Nordean (18 years) and Dominic Pezzola (10 years), as well as Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes (18 years) and Richard “Bigo” Barnett, who sat with his feet on a desk in then–House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office (four and a half years), held a press conference at the U.S. Capitol to announce they were going to sue the Justice Department for prosecuting them.

Kyle Cheney of Politico reported that the group followed the route they took around the Capitol on January 6, 2021, then posed for photos chanting as they had that day: “Whose house? Our house.” Protesters nearby heckled the group, and when one of them put her phone near Tarrio’s face while he was talking to a photographer, he batted her arm away. Capitol Police officers promptly arrested him for assault.

A number of the January 6 rioters were visiting the Capitol from the nearby Conservative Political Action Conference being held in Maryland. There, MAGA participants continued to normalize Nazi imagery as both Steve Bannon and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui threw fascist-style salutes to the crowd.

Yesterday, Tarrio posted a video of himself following officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 though the lobby of a Washington hotel where the anti-Trump Principles First conference was taking place. According to Joan E. Greve of The Guardian, Tarrio followed officers Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn, Daniel Hodges, and Aquilino Gonell, saying: “You guys were brave at my sentencing when you sat there and laughed when I got 22 f*cking years. Now you don’t want to look in my eyes, you f*cking cowards.” Fanone turned and told him: “You’re a traitor to this country.”]]

r97, well, he put Otis in Andy's old position.

Agent Krasnov is enabling Russian war crimes.

Re Carville, yeah, obviously he's full of shit as always. However my own personal experience with malignant narcissists is they usually aren't taken out until they fuck things up so badly that their flying monkeys can't cover for them anymore. By which time they've done so much damage that everyone's too exhausted and dispirited to celebrate. But they do get taken out, if they don't die or become incapacitated first, which is very much in the cards for Donald.

Krasnov is in it for the money.

Just like daddy taught him.

He'll be a trillionaire by the time this is over. He's selling access and God knows what else. No Republicans are going to stop him, not even good for nothing Murkowski.

Leningrad Lindsey is back, flipping again to support DJT on Ukraine.

When he is impeached, Vance has to be impeached first to not pardon him.

The US joins Russia in refusing to vote for a UN resolution condemning Russia for invading Ukraine

Absolutely disgusting. JFC.

[quote]Leningrad Lindsey is back, flipping again to support DJT on Ukraine.

In fairness, it may not be a flip. He could just be shitfaced again.

The lack of outrage from Republican Senate and House members is horrible. MAGAt voters are loaded with stupid cultists, but all legislators should know better unless they have embraced treason.

Impeach!

Okay, fess up, which one of you did this?

This is your brain on MAGA.

Ok - for a million years he has worn that lonnng red neck tie. Now he has been swapping it with the blue tie and the yellow tie. Is he signaling something? One if by land - two if by sea?

R113, when the yellow tie's on he wants piss play.

Oh my god. He's rambling to Macron about going to check on the gold in Fort Knox. Macron just nods and smiles like you would with a dementia patient.

[quote][R113], when the yellow tie's on he wants piss play.

Or it's a flood warning.

As someone said, the gold will come up “missing”, he’ll declare Biden stole it, and lo and behold he’ll have taken it himself.

Anybody notice that ever since Musk came into the picture, Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka have been MIA? Wonder what they think of Musk.

R118 As long as they get in on the grift they don’t care.

He might want to check with his former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and wife who were the last to visit Fort Knox.

Does this president ever entertain a thought that doesn't concern money?

SMH

[quote]former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and wife

Why is it that no major news media is covering the admission of a Russian Spy that Trump has been a Russian asset since the 80s? Shouldn't that be the top story everywhere??

For Chrissakes, why didn't Joy Reid cover it on her last show? It's not like she's afraid she'd be fired!

People have more to be afraid of now than getting fired, r122.

Our allies should distance themselves from us, and no longer count on us. We actually put them in danger.

The EU should take immediate steps to become independent of us for everything.

NATO needs to let the United States know that if the US leaves NATO, then Ukraine becomes a NATO member instantaneously. And Poland needs to move into Ukraine like the Nazi Anschluss of Austria.

Poland would annex Ukraine for the EU.

The FT reporting this monring that Peter Navarro wants Canada kicked out of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing group of the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Five Eyes should kick the US out and leave Canada alone.

I think the US HAS been kicked out of the Five Eyes. More or less.

Nobody has gone on the record.

As well they SHOULD kick us out. That orange fool already sold their info to Putin and his knows who else.

Yes, they should kick the US out. Who should trust us?

On another thread it was mentioned that our Olympics should be boycotted. I agree.

We are a pariah state.

"A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases, a private fleet of 100 planes, and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests."

What could go wrong?

With all the widespread waste, abuse & fraud in our federal government, I wish reporters would ask every republican member of Congress to document all the cuts & layoffs they've administered.

R131

The Daily Telegraph is a right wing rag. And it's worried Trump will crater the economy:

“It seems almost unavoidable that we are headed for a deep, deep recession,” said Jesse Rothstein, Berkeley professor and former chief economist at the US labour department.

Once the pace of job losses crosses a critical line, the multiplier effects can snowball suddenly.

Prof Rothstein said monthly non-farm payrolls – the barometer of US economic health watched closely by markets – could turn viciously negative by late spring, contracting at rates surpassed only during the worst months of Covid and the Lehman crisis in 2008.

“I think we’re going to see historically large drops. Losses of 400,000 a month are not implausible because people are getting nervous out there. “It is not just the federal employees being fired: it’s all the other people worried they could be next, so they are cutting back too,” he told The Telegraph.

Torsten Slok, of Apollo Global, said layoffs could approach 1m after factoring in the likely chain reaction through contractors. “We are starting to worry about the downside risks to the economy and markets,” he said.

Markets are implicitly betting that Trump’s trade wars are just bluster, but he restated on Monday night that his 25pc tariffs against Mexico and Canada would go ahead next week, which would instantly snarl up the North American auto industry.

“It would be devastating,” said Ford’s Jim Farley.

Judges have intervened but almost $300bn (£240bn) left from the Infrastructure Act remains in limbo. Freyr Battery has cancelled a $2.6bn plant in Georgia linked to the IRA. Kore Power has dropped its $1.2bn energy storage project in Arizona. Heliene has shelved a $200m solar-cell facility. Nel has halted its $200m gigafactory in Detroit. Prysmian will not be making undersea cables for offshore wind after all.

The US economy has been displaying late-cycle fatigue for some time, which is no doubt why Warren Buffett more than doubled his holding of cash and treasury bills to $334bn last year. We can only guess at his real reasons for battening down the hatches: perhaps he fears the delayed effects of past Fed tightening; or perhaps he dislikes anarchy.

R133

Musk and DOGE are starving kids overseas

R133 Yes, it will get that bad, and worse. The multiplier effect is what scares the hell out of me. It's a vicious cycle and with the chaos they are causing because they have no idea what they're doing..JFC.

Where's that asshole troll of mine who said I was just fear mongering?

[quote]Musk and DOGE are starving kids overseas

It's just a warmup for starving the kids here at home.

I noticed less flies on the dinner plate this week

[quote]It's just a warmup for starving the kids here at home

They already are, r137.

“Fewer” flies, dear Darfur . . .

“fewer flies.”

I thought you starved to death in the Great Famine of Last Week. Stars be praised!

Amy Klobuchar has joined Bluesky... only to get her ass handed to her.

It's the feel good thread of the day.

Which will tell you what a lousy day it is.

Trump administration lied about Tesla deal, tried to blame Biden

American aluminum giant Alcoa Corp. is warning that a looming trade war is placing 100,000 U.S. jobs at risk in the industry as the company urges the Trump administration to exempt the metal from threatened tariffs on shipments from Canada.

^ ‘I Guess You Get Fired’

Trump wants his own private army to conduct mass deportations

Trump Gaza. This is insane, I don't know what else to say about it.

Confront them where you see them.

^ I can just imagine the things a DLer would say if they saw Lindz in public

For those that want to at least try and do something to help, use the 5calls.org app. Today's is about saving the VA.

DEI must DIE chill seeps northward:

Toronto’s Pride 2025 festival is in peril after three of its sponsors pulled their funding amid a massive corporate push against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the U.S.

Kojo Modeste, executive director at Pride Toronto, told the Star that the companies, which operate on both sides of the border, have informed Pride Toronto that “they will no longer be supporting Pride because their mandate has changed.”

Pride Toronto, the non-profit organization behind the annual 2SLGBTQI+ parade, did not disclose the names of the sponsors as it hopes to persuade them to continue their funding.

It did say that two sponsors were “gold” partners, contributing at least $150,000 in cash and in-kind goods, and another was “silver,” contributing more than $100,000.

“We strongly believe that it has a lot to do with the shift that we’re seeing happening in the U.S.,” added Modeste.

When you say DEI must due, you are basically saying that no minorities need apply for government employment.

Do you know how stupid that is.

White people cannot create second class citizens anymore.

DEI must due?

Due, due, due what you dun, dun, dun...

Is anybody else having trouble accessing Bluesky?

Not that I'm paranoid or anything.

Not just you, R155.

It's working for me.

seems back.

I agree R151, stupid white men should stop failing upward just because they're MAGA.

Trump, Musk, and MAGA world must despise DL; at least the ones that know about it and peep. There are scorching posts, often truth heavy, with content that mainstream media fears touching. Yeah, the Krasnov commentaries, included. Leaders in the MAGA domain don’t want to even acknowledge a gay social media site exists.

The war on both the poor and academia continues.

Nothing that Trump has done so far is going to get Republicans votes over the next 4 years. Nobody cares about cutting waste because the benefits are intangible.

Everything he's done actually hurts people, like cutting jobs and benefits, and Republicans are going to pay the price at the polls.

Like that matters when YOU OWN the fucking satellites, r162.

They don’t care, because they’re throwing people off the voter rolls, gerrymandering to hell and back and have the voting software back door.

They know that they can do whatever the fuck they want and will NEVER be held accountable.

R163 I am afraid you are exactly correct on this. They sure are acting like they can do all sorts of very unpopular things and they won’t suffer consequences from voters.

I am extremely terrified. I keep thinking our only hope is a military coup (because they swore an oath and will uphold it), and I think it is a real possibility. They can restore order, hold new elections which are completely on paper AND are monitored.

Yeah, paper ballots only. Musk and his young incels will infiltrate network voting machines and state tabulation systems. Crooked voting officials and operatives will be placed at strategic locations in advance. They may have already done that in 2024. DJT and cronies have no qualms about cheating, lying, distortion, and theft. That is their character, and they know they will not face accountability and legal repercussions.

R164, R165 YES - we need more of this!! I've been saying it since November, but at this point, what do we really have to lose? Our lives? If the rest of my life is to live in a fascist country - especially if it's this one - I'd risk it.

Sarah explains it all for you. This is a great Q&A...

She really does make sense of a lot of how Trump has gotten away with it all, and how we got to this horrible place. Better than anyone else I've read. I found some of this oddly comforting.

Trump is out of his mind. "The European union was formed to screw the United States."

R167, thanks for posting that. Sarah is great.

Here's another article that explains the grift. I just posted it in another thread but it should be here, too. It's all about the grift and duping the American public.

I just can’t get over how fucking blind maggots are to this.

They screamed bloody murder about Hunter Biden’s supposed bribery, but this shit is utterly ignored, blown off or “I don’t care about that”.

Fucking maggots need to be FORCE FED the FACTS. If you’re that far gone that you refuse to see the facts stating you in the face, maybe you need some reprogramming.

I’m reminded of that “hitler in the bunker” end scene meme. I have to wonder if maggots will ever get to that point? Where they have to face the FACTS of what they’ve done and support?

That's just it r170. The facts don't really matter to them. They are perfectly capable of shrieking howling and sobbing about anything any Democrat does ever and then completely ignoring the exact same thing, but ten times worse, as long as it's coming from inside the Cult. Anything done by Trump and Musk, for most of them, is simply part of some mysterious divine plan. I don't think there's anything that can be done about that, other than out voting, out organizing, swamping them with numbers outside the cult, assuming even that is possible right now.

I wonder how this Don't Buy Shit will go tomorrow. Boycotts tend to fail, but if there is a significant, noticeable drop at Amazon and Walmart and other places, well, it would get their attention at least.

Remember, their lives are shit. Unemployment, addiction, violence. Now he's bringing everybody else down to their level. They haven't haven't had this much fun in years.

R171, Walmart and especially Target are reporting alarming drops in sales already.

Non cultists can see that the traitor has done NOTHING to bring down prices, so people have stopped buying.

Target has been hit with a “blackout” where Black Americans (mostly women, from what I can see) have stopped all purchases at Target because of their 180 on DEI now that dump has been reinstalled.

They’ve already lost $15BILLION. So boycotts and blackouts work. We just have to stick together.

There are more sane people than maggots.

The thing is, how do they get out of this - assuming they could be induced to?

Does a contingent of Republicans turn on him and ally with Democrats to impeach? Because then, as in the other thread, there's the threat of his gang of morons.

Does Trump do a 180? Certainly he's shameless enough to pretend he didn't do anything he did before while he reinvents himself. But does the cabal around him let him?

If the public abandons him, is there a way out?

[quote] Walmart and especially Target are reporting alarming drops in sales already.

They need to stock up more with Trump merch. And American flags.

[quote]And American flags.

They can put them on the shelves where the Lee Press-Ons *used* to be.

Republicans needs to gang up on Vance and through him on Musk.

Impeach Vance for betraying Trump on behalf of evil foreigners Theil and Musk.

And then install a sane VP.

Trump is getting ready to hold a press conference with the British PM.

The spineless Merrick Garland failed a nation. He’s part of your legacy, Joe Biden.

Everyone knows that Trump is unbelievably stupid and batshit crazy.

The British PM just said to Trump that he had called Zelensky a dictator and he is not a dictator, Putin is a dictator. Love it!

In his defense, Merrick Garland, in the immediate aftermath of J6, like the rest of the political world, could not have reasonably imagined Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

That scumbag deserves no defense. Anyone with half a brain knew Trump was going to be the nominee. Biden/Garland wanted Trump to go up against and it blew up in their faces for not following the law and prosecuting Trump with everything they had.

Certainly not, R183.

From Sarah Kendzior's article posted above:

[quote]As a result, the focus has been on trivialities, like bot farms, or on rumors like this one. As I wrote in Hiding in Plain Sight, “No one could see the forest for the treason.”

Could "No one could see the forest for the Treason" be out next thread title?

SEC drops charges against a Chinese national who gave Trump millions

Naked corruption - the kind that would doom any other administration - is the least of our concerns.

R169 Thanks for posting. Pretty good article. I just don't really agree with it's premise. The open corruption is being discussed everywhere, but I guess it could be easy to miss in regards to everything else horrible they're doing.

Trump and Vance insult Zelensky to his face, spew Putin talking points

Dumb useless fucks playing at strategy r189. Ridiculous fools. Feel so bad for Zelensky. And nothing is more "disrespectful" than a couple of whores for Putin pretending to know shit they don't know and lecturing the President of Ukraine about his own country.

Trump, JD, Vance, and Lindsey Graham are horrible, corrupt people. The orange turd is a Russian agent. The evidence is there.

Ahhh, Prekrasni Krasnov!

Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

Protesters interrupt JD Vance's Vermont vacation

He's been in office a month and it's time for a vacation?

Why does he want to vacation in a woke blue state? I hope the locals make his life miserable.

[quote]Why does he want to vacation in a woke blue state?

Well, he certainly doesn't want to have anything to do with the people who elected him. Like Trump, he has contempt for them.

Donald has spent half his second term in Florida cheating at golf.

Trump and Musk accuse federal employees of doing little work but Trump's fat butt is golfing again

Trump is in Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. Miss Lindz is there too.

If only a gator from one of those ponds, would run up and chomp on his fat ass. I’d name that gator Luigi.

R199, I was a federally funded Welfare/ Title XIX worker and I can tell you that they worked us like dogs. And whenever someone quit my caseload bloated until a replacement was hired but it took a full year to train a new worker as the manuals were both 8 inches thick and held thousands of regulations. This is all the gift from beyond the Ronald Reagan grave when he started the war against trusting our government. Fuck him.

I’m decorating my home for Easter

Potatoes, r 202?

[quote]8 inches thick

Pics please.

There are protesters in West Palm Beach too

The way that Starmer is coming in with 2 billion - plus the European countries putting their “willing Coalition” to back Z and the Ukraine - not to mention photos of Z with King Charles - If after all of this - if Trump won’t sign the mineral rights deal - there is no way Trump can pretend that he isn’t Putin’s Lady!

R205 - the sign “Russian operatives in the White House” sums it up. The Cabinet has several. Infiltration has happened in Congress.

Tonight's Family Guy is recommended.

too late.... quick synopsis?

[quote]Peter runs into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at a brewery tour, and the two become best friends, drinking the night into oblivion together. When Peter wakes up, he realizes their lives have swapped, and he joins the Supreme Court as Brett Kavanaugh, and Brett returns to Quahog as Peter. As Peter assimilates his way into the Supreme Court, he is forced to make a ruling on the constitutionality of gay marriage. Meanwhile, Brett tries to become friends with Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe.

Ginni Thomas gets hers.

Workers who speak out against Trump and DOGE are being fired

Top Spokesman at HHS resigns after clashing with RFK Jr

Late Sunday night, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” erasing $4 billion in additional savings that the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

The deleted items included five of the seven largest savings that it had claimed credit for just last week.

This comes a day after DOGE was claiming credit for “canceling” contracts that were canceled or fulfilled decades ago.

Zelenskyy vs Miss Lindsey

r213, DOGE is a diversion to Trump/Must from installing all those servers that now control ALL of America's cash.

At the flick of a switch, trillions and trillions of dollars of American cash disappears into THOUSANDS of Trump LLCs.

My partner posted something in jest on Bluesky today, alluding to how Musk needs to meet the same fate as Caesar did in the Forum, and immediately got a message from Musk. Adolf Titler is one thin skinned little bitch, for sure.

Melonia is a narcissistic nepo baby just like Donald. They have to constantly degrade other people in order to drown out their own self-loathing.

CAN TRUMP READ? Asks British PM to read out loud

Elon mocked for being a Nazi at a parade in Germany

Damn. German carnaval does *not* fuck around.

I can't tell you how much I detest this man.

"Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US."

And more:

The Trump administration has informed NOAA that two pivotal centers for weather forecasting will soon have their leases canceled, sources told Axios.

Why it matters: One of the buildings is the nerve center for generating national weather forecasts.

I guess not knowing when hurricanes, tornados, blizzards and the like are about to hit will make life more exciting.

Predicting blizzards and hurricanes is too "woke" I guess.

A taste...

Righties want to privatize weather forecasting, making it a business for profit. There will be a charge for weather reports.

Ahhh, an American government where everything is cash and carry, pay as you ho, where rich people buy nothing and sell everything.

Slavery.

Good riddance to Floriduh and Texass

No hurricane warnings and no FEMA. They won’t last long and they voted for this shit.

Marco Rubio Has Complete Meltdown Trying To Defend Trump’s Love Of Putin

Trump is charging business leaders millions of dollars to meet with him

Do the diehard MAGAts ever complain that donald never invites them to Mar-a-Lardo?

Pity the Supreme Court killed the Emoluments Clause.

It is now the Cash Emollients Clause where people grease Trump.

I just turned on my phone and read this CNN headline "Zelensky describes Oval Office meeting as ‘regrettable,’ says he is ready to negotiate peace".

Beyond depressing. Also means that perhaps my speculation about Zelensky, that he knew exactly how that meeting was to go but went thru with it anyway, feeling it was a necessary formality, thus to gain more financial support from the European countries.

I actually started to feel hopeful again.

But now he's capitulating to Trump. And we know how this is gonna end. It's devastating!

[quote] people grease Trump

Pics please.

It’s extremely depressing r 233, but I have to give Zelenskyy enormous credit. All he cares about is his country. Unlike our orange buffoon.

But how in the fuck do they draft an agreement that keeps Donald and Putin from just completely fucking Ukraine over??

R236, I don’t know… sadly.

R236 They don't. Zelenskyy must know that! Perhaps the statement he released today is his way of stalling for time.

Think about it. At some point, not only is Trump NOT gonna release the funding already agreed upon for Ukraine, but he's gonna take that money and give it to Putin to defeat Ukraine once and for all. This at least stalls Trump from doing the latter because now he has more trouble justifying that decision, (if that still matters).

Anyone interested in Michael Fanone's response?

R239 Yes, I’ll watch tomorrow.

How could anyone watch Dotard tonight?

FCI, all you need to see is the first 10 seconds. :):)

Someone here said a few weeks ago, watch, America will end up giving aide and financial support to Russia

Watch. Just watch

He's already called Zelensky a dictator and put out flat out lies & disinformation about him

Which is why I am confused as to why Ukraine does not sign the same agreement with its real trading partner/neighbor, The European Union.

R242 Worse than that. Trump will give Putin the millions of dollars and weapons meant for Ukraine so Russia can defeat THEM once and for all.

Ole’ Rimmer is having her heyday. She wants Trump ‘28.

She wants to defy the Constitution.

Rump must have told Miz Linds he has pics of him sucking a big black cock

R246 (I'm kinda being serious here). That cock would have to belong to a boy 17yrs old or younger. Anyone know if Miss L was ever a guest on Epstein Island?

MAGA has not backed down or come their senses. I don’t think it hyperbolic to say, if rump sent out death squads to kill democrats, they would cheer.

From Facebook:

[quote] they aren’t even human. They give disgusting disgrace a new meaning. How can you not stand for that little boy and Lakens family after Biden let the criminal in who killed her and gave him free flight to Georgia - his hands are full of blood. They make me sick.

[quote] MAGA has not backed down or come their senses.

And they never will. But it was the votes of non-MAGAts that tipped the election.

I’m already seeing maga posts about how high prices are (and this will not shock anyone here) “no bid deal” now, how “Americans NEED to tighten their belts” because “they spend to frivolously” and “high prices will be good for us in the long run.”

Of course the media, from what I skim (headlines) aren’t hyping higher prices like they were under Biden. The media absolutely assassinated / assassinates Biden and Democrats.

We could be taken over by China and maga would cheer if Dotard said it was a good thing.

Why are people here still on Zuckenturd's Facebook? Punch and delete.

Good point r250. I have Facebook to keep in touch with older relatives. Along the way and much earlier I befriended old high school acquaintances. That’s where that post came from, from old high school acquaintance

I also think it’s good to know what MAGA is thinking.

The link to Reddit is a video of a maga fool harassing some guy that did a peaceful protest.

It’s scary out there, be safe all 💜

China apparently breached the US Treasury according to Gen Mark Hertling. Trump wants to do away with income taxes and replace them with $ from tariffs

This is..bad.

Any of you guys know about this case? If the Democratic "loser" hadn't vociferously insisted on hand recounts, she would have had to accept her "loss" when she legitimately won!

Trump is kicking Ukrainian refugees (who are here legally) out of the country

Hope Canada takes them

Please, FCI! China didn't "break in" to anything. Muskhole gave them FULL ACCESS after his brats broke in

Fuck the maggot trash.

Now our allies fear giving us intelligence because Trump might share it with Russia

I have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach

I think things are way worse than we know

Trump is out of his mind, kick him out.

R258, that development was inevitable with the Gabbard appointment.

[quote]Members of the so-called Five Eyes spy alliance, as well as Israeli and Saudi officials, fear the identities of foreign assets could inadvertently be shared with Moscow.

"inadvertently"

R258 That article makes it sound like they have been sharing intel up to now. If they were smart, they stopped the day T-rump was inaugurated, if not the day he was "elected".

I hate believing our (once?) allies now consider us the enemy. USA is not the enemy. T-rump, E-lon Musk and T-rump's administration is the enemy. They were drafted by Putin, planted and installed, along with all the other American citizens masquerading as Patriots. For anyone who hasn't grasped the concept, we have been fighting a war within since at least 2016. It would appear we have been fighting a civil war, but that's really not the case. We were invaded. There are thousands of moles all over the place. These moles are using the weapons of misinformation, disinformation and psychological warfare to convert every-day Americans into Putin's cause. They don't realize they have been and are being manipulated. They don't realize they've been complicit. I'm talking family members of many people here. I have a few.

We are living thru the greatest crime against mankind, as it is still being committed, in real time.

To use T-rump's terminology when referring to Ukrainian ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, we need him to be "taken out", (whatever that means).

It appears to be the only way this country, as it has been up to now, can survive. If it's not already too late!

NYT: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves

"The silence grows louder every day.

Fired federal workers who are worried about losing their homes ask not to be quoted by name. University presidents fearing that millions of dollars in federal funding could disappear are holding their fire. Chief executives alarmed by tariffs that could hurt their businesses are on mute.

Even longtime Republican hawks on Capitol Hill, stunned by President Trump’s revisionist history that Ukraine is to blame for its invasion by Russia, and his Oval Office blowup at President Volodymyr Zelensky, have either muzzled themselves, tiptoed up to criticism without naming Mr. Trump or completely reversed their positions.

More than six weeks into the second Trump administration, there is a chill spreading over political debate in Washington and beyond.

People on both sides of the aisle who would normally be part of the public dialogue about the big issues of the day say they are intimidated by the prospect of online attacks from Mr. Trump and Elon Musk, concerned about harm to their companies and frightened for the safety of their families. Politicians fear banishment by a party remade in Mr. Trump’s image and the prospect of primary opponents financed by Mr. Musk, the president’s all-powerful partner and the world’s richest man"

Badabing please.

Profiles in Cowardice.

[quote]Members of the so-called Five Eyes spy alliance, as well as Israeli and Saudi officials, fear the identities of foreign assets could inadvertently be shared with Moscow.

Bloomberg TV: DOGE effort to sell off federal properties "inadvertently" exposes CIA black site in Northern Virginia.

Nuremberg Trials v2.0 will be so fun!!

[quote]Nuremberg Trials v2.0 will be so fun!!

Anything said to the Saudi's may or may not end up with Putin.

The Saudi's are the ultimate Ferengi transactional tribe.

r259, I've been following Canadian media (CBC News and Toronto Star) and they are in full wartime mode. Most Americans are so habituated to Donald's sickness they have no idea how serious the international situation has become.

WW3 will be a complete revelation to MAGA.

Per Ben Meiselas, more fentanyl was handed out by White House drug dealer Ronny Jackson during Donald's first term than has entered the US via Canada.

Trump is punishing universities who do not comply with his DEI ban. He won't even let Ohio U. hold a black alumni event

What does everyone think about rump putting the brakes on Elmo (a bit)

Do you all believe it?

The Republican Party has railed against big and intrusive government for decades. However, the Trump cartel is intensely pursuing micromanagement with incompetence. They are intensely meddling in businesses, lifestyles, governmental and non-governmental agencies and organizations at will, and also with the financial well-being of the ordinary populous in negative ways. They have grossly overstepped what has traditionally been the role of the executive branch. It is blatantly authoritarianism and the GOP Congress supports such out of fear and/or ignorance..

What r276 said.

The Trump cartel is truly a criminal enterprise. They cause chaos to line their own pockets and gain ruthless power of the lives of others. They do not care about other humans, animals, the environment, the quality of our lives. They enjoy disrespecting and hurting people. Steven Miller is a hate filled Nazi, the rest are no better.

Michael Cohen predicted this before long before the election that after establishing his own power rump would go after the fortunes of his enabling oligarchs. That's what Putin did. It's possible we'll see Elon Musk fall out of a window soon, after he signs over his billions to trump.

I believe that somehow the Trump cartel will be ousted. When, how soon, and by whom I'd like to know.

R278 what makes you feel he will be ousted? Just a feeling, wishful thinking, or some deep thought thinking?

IMO, the non-billionaire CEO class that has to answer to pension funds - the old blue chips - will be so spooked and pissed by his stupid on again/off again tariffs, trade wars, threats to other countries that will be forced to turn the screws on him in order to save their own stock prices.

Once stockholders start screaming, shit will get real. The stock price drops too much and calls to Repug Reps and Senators will be made by these CEOs demanding they rein him in or lose support.

It’s going to be tech bros vs the old guard. People can live without Amazon, Facebook and the dead bird. They can’t live without food, clothing, soaps, medications and beverages.

If the old guard starts making calls to rethugs, then shit will get real and the traitor will either be removed, brought to heel or go with his tech bros. Honestly, if we all stopped using the dead bird, FB and Amazon, they’d go broke and go away (I hope)

Lunatic Lutnick: “Things are not gonna rise in price if you make them here”

Reporter: “But sir, wages are higher here”

Lunatic Lutnick: “Then Robots will make them and people don’t have to go to college”

This is the US Secretary of Commerce. You can’t make this shit up 🤦‍♂️

Angry doesn't like it when people call out MAGA Merrick Garland's negligence.

R281, I was stunned when I saw that. Lutnick might turn out to be an even worse pick than Hegseth and Kash Patel

DC gay- we need you to confirm the very bad news I’m hearing. Things are going to get very bad. The crypto/Fort Knox stuff is worse case scenario. They’re going to rob us blind. By they- oligarchs of multiple countries. Trillions. We’ll be bankrupt. Economic collapse. Weaken our neighbors so they get taken over. I’m hearing very bad things.

On a positive note- we can still easily be saved. Time is running out.

R281, FCI Just reminding all that Howard Nudnick....I mean Lutnick.......was the next door neighbor of Jeffrey Epstein....and not by coincidence.

Jim Stewartson wrote about the “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” a proposal to force the Treasury to trade a big chunk of Fort Knox for a bunch of worthless prime numbers we have to HODL for 20 years. It's like a bank robbery in process.

R279. maybe just wishful thinking, but if Repukes in Congress get scared enough rump could be impeached again. I'm wondering if it's possible if his crimes get so outrageous even maga might turn on him or even the military, if things get too bad. It's crazy to think that there is no solid process to remove a president who so blatantly is robbing and destroying our democracy.

After reading R284's post though, I'm feeling really spooked. FCI, how can we still be easily saved?

Well, instead of commodities, you'll soon have a stockpile of digital images of frogs wearing pirate costumes. At first, the hype will inflate the price, someone will make trillions off that speculation and when it crashes, they'll be out on the first plane to Saudi Arabia while you're trying to see if you can trade your kidney for food or meds on the black market.

R287 A lot of ways. Some extreme-assassination (I’m not advocating this), military coup. Others less so- citizens in mass numbers revolt from urban to rural, and Republicans grow a backbone.

R285 I’m not surprised.

Hmmmm

The media’s beloved Republican Senator refuses to hold a town hall meeting in his home state.

[quote] "I'm going keep doing what I’m doing to help President (Donald) Trump," he said. “I don’t need a town hall to know what to do.”

….Miss Lindsey

Town halls are so declasse

DOGE staff is being paid by the taxpayers.

Trump's trips to Florida are costing millions paid by the taxpayers.

Check out this thread:

[quote]Now that it’s been reveals that Trump has been a Russian asset for 40 years named Krasnov by the FSB, I will write a simple thread of various pieces of information that solidifies the truth of everything I’ve written. Please read and share...

Let me know if y'all can't gain access.

I'm finding this post rather interesting.

Trump never even read the daily intelligence briefings, but Jared did. If you think Trump took those to MAL for light reading, I’ve got a Trump Tower to sell you. And Jared didn’t get 2 billion from the Saudi’s for nothing.

Photo below was Super Bowl Sunday 2/9/2025. Wendy Deng Murdoch is a suspected Chinese spy who date Putin and May Musk of course shit out the spawn of satan.

[quote]I’ve got a Trump Tower to sell you.

Which one?

I would like to know more about this.

FCI, might it have anything to do with the date 4/20?

[quote]I don’t know if 4/20 is the date, but there will be a Big Day when this regime tries to end the government, and our freedom of speech, altogether. I will keep writing until they physically stop me.

I miss the innocent days when we discussed Prancing Ponies.

How do you solve a problem like Lisa Murkowski? Cede Alaska to Russia.

JD Vance's cousin calls him a useful idiot for Putin

Both fElon and Donald seem to me to be clowns they're using to keep the public distracted from what's actually going on, which is a dirty bloody fight between competing interests to get their agendas done.

Here is a couple of podcasts worth listening to. The Canadian Press to start.

The Kyiv Post. A lot to learn here.

rump is squandering our legacy on greed and hate. We've lost respect and trust on a global scale.

There are more smart people in this world than there are billionaires. We've become so spoiled and lazy that obviously many Americans were not paying close attention to how they are spending billions to steal our wealth and destroy our democracy. Instead they buy the lies about white supremacy, immigrants, and all that other bullshit propagandists spread to get their votes.

Smarten up, republican voters, you've been conned! And the same to Dems who don't vote. Learning how government works and voting to preserve it does count.

It was rigged.

R302 Who knows. Each day is another hell from them.

Huh, Bernie's drawing crowds.

R313 as we saw in 2024, that means nothing. And he’s only drawing White crowds.

R310, I've been screaming since Bush v Gore.

Cassandra

"Trump posted an article to his Truth Social account this weekend featuring a deeply troubling image: a pink triangle—the Nazi-era symbol used to identify and persecute gay men in concentration camps—covered with a red prohibited sign.

The image, placed in the context of military recruitment, strongly suggests a rejection of LGBTQ+ service members, at least in the terms of recruitment, under Trump’s leadership."

^ Yikes

Hegseth has spoken out against gays in the military

R314, he's in very white districts, districts that elected Republicans.

Siting in a restaurant in South Carolina. Red neck looking guy at the next table is lecturing his Rump- supporting young female friend and her father on the economic harm tariffs are doing to his, and fellow businessmen’s, businesses.

Father looks like he’s taking it all in. She reluctantly comes around to his point of view by the end of dinner.

[quote] Siting in a restaurant in South Carolina.

They won’t find Lindsey Graham in South Carolina- She avoids having town hall meetings.

They can only pretend for so long that pissed-off MAGA constituents are Soros-funded ANTIFA! crisis actors.

Is Donald...unpopular??

[quote]They can only pretend for so long that pissed-off MAGA constituents are Soros-funded ANTIFA! crisis actors.

Ya wanna bet?

Check on status of project 2025

Thanks, r324. Motherfuckers.

The MAGA cult has to be the dumbest people. I see and hear them chat. They are now pro-Russia, blaming Democrats for the economic woes, claim their religious freedom is under attack,and are raging against transgenders. Here is the largest school district in the state and there is not a single transgender athlete in any of the schools. I heard that from the District Superintendent, a single black woman heading a district that is 62% black.

Donald Trump is a vulture Capitalist who used poor MAGAs to fight Democrats to get elected.

Tariffs show they mean nothing to rich people.

MAGA has been used by the Murdoch/Marketing/Analytics Machine.

r328 is one of those pigeons who plays chess but just craps up the board.

Because they are a distraction, I repost what they wanted to drown out.

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Donald Trump is a vulture Capitalist who used poor MAGAs to fight Democrats to get elected.

Tariffs show they mean nothing to rich people.

MAGA has been used by the Murdoch/Marketing/Analytics Machine.

Where do we stand right now? More Doge firing? I haven’t seen any new ones in the news

Tesla tanking. Fucking good. Hope they all lose their shirts

Trump's press secretary is a little skank. Just awful.

R331 How awful is she compared to the previous? (Sean Spicer, The Huckabeast, Kayleigh). Put them in order for me if you don't mind.

I deliberately left out Stephanie Grisham. She had been my choice for the worst while she was serving, but since extricating herself from the MAGA cult, she's spilled a lot of tea and I've been grateful. I think Grisham is perpetually damaged, and I have only sympathy for her now.

What it’s like inside the Social Security Admin

[quote]I deliberately left out Stephanie Grisham.

May as well, as she didn't do any press conferences.

Ahem

[quote]—The Huckabeast

She’s been quite scandalous as Governor of Arkansas. The financial corruption should be shocking, but it’s Arkansas.

Mitch McConnell has come out against Trump‘s tariffs. Too little, too late, motherfucker. Just die, already!

Like Joe Manchin, R337, we’ll miss McConnell when he’s gone. Any new Kentucky senator will certainly be a complete Trump rubber stamp.

^ Agreed. The one good thing you can say about Mitch is that now that he doesn't have to worry about being primaries he can actually speak out against Trump sometimes. Whoever replaces him will just be a bootlicker

[quote]The one good thing you can say about Mitch is that now that he doesn't have to worry about being primaries he can actually speak out against Trump sometimes

And that helps us...how, r339?

Trump Cuts $1 Billion From USDA That Was Providing Food To Hungry School Children

The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.

Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the groups are involved in “possible criminal violations,” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.”

^ Kash Patel has an "enemies list"

This was always what he was going to do - target people or organizations that Trumpers don't like

Shame on the Senate for confirming him

R341, no money for foreigners -- and no money for children in the U.S. either. Starve, everyone!

...but NO abortion either...

A friend reports that the IRS is turmoil, as staff reductions have caused unlocatable records of people who file taxes from US territories (Virgin Islands, Guam, etc).

More bodies to turn into biodiesel R345.

I think Marco Rubio will run for POTUS in 2028.

Curtis Yarvin, is that you at r347? 😀

As if four years of Trump isn't bad enough, we have four years of Musk since he rigged the election. Nothing you can say will convince me otherwise. He probably told Trump if I do this for you it will keep you out of jail but in return, I want to be involved in the government. Makes sense to me.

[quote]Nothing you can say will convince me otherwise.

Trump admits it at r311.

For once he wasn't lying, dementia will do that. Get the hook!

I've noticed lately that his eyelids frequently are at half mast.

Get back to me when they're at *no* mast, r353.

Ha, ha, ha. The problem is another problem. Line of succession is JD Vance followed by Mike Johnson.

I truly believe trump is the only problem and once he dies, the whole house of cards collapses.

May take a while, but the maga movement will never be the same without out him.

Randy Rainbow's latest.

Well, let's not bring Blake Lively into this, please.

R448 You're being hopeful. By 2028, Rubio will have done something to piss Trump off, will have long been out of his SoS job, be considered disloyal, and serving time in a detention center in Cuba. (they'll be our ally by then).

Vance is worse than Trump. He’s all in on the Dark Enlightenment and he’s young.

[quote]Dark Enlightenment

My blood runs cold every time I read those words.

Get on this, DLers

"U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued an injunction commanding DOGE to comply with citizen requests under the Freedom of Information Act. This law encompasses the Federal Privacy Act of 1974, which entitles any citizen to access personal information held in any U.S. government records system. Please find a fillable Privacy Act request form HERE."

And remember Vance has to be removed before Krasnov so he cannot pardon Krasnov.

A federal judge in California today ordered six federal agencies to offer to reinstate probationary employees who were fired last month, finding that their terminations by the Office of Personnel Management were unlawful.

The order extends relief to fired workers at the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior and Treasury.

"It is a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that's a lie," the judge said. "That should not have been done in our country. It was a sham in order to avoid statutory requirements."

Here's a transcript from The New Republic from a podcast by Greg Sargent's Daily Blast. He's interviewing Salon’s Amanda Marcotte who makes some brilliant observations during the interview. So sorry of the attending photo of a steaming pile of shit, but do check out Marcotte's articles at Salon and Sargent's podcasts.

From the transcript:

Marcotte: "It’s fascinating because everyone knows that tariffs are a sales tax. I always assumed that that was why Trump wants to impose them—because he’s a rich guy who wants to move the tax burden off of rich people and onto poor people."

Later in the interview: "..... it’s super clear that he’s repeating ideas that he heard from Elon Musk and Peter Thiel that are very radical, very strange. And he doesn’t really understand them, so it’s always a weird twisted watered-down version. It’s clear that they have pumped him up with the idea that he could be this historical figure who changes society to look like what they consider a utopian vision but is obviously a dystopian vision for nearly all people of the future.

Their ideas are incredibly radical. They basically want to end democracy and replace it with neo feudalism. He obviously doesn’t understand any of that, but he does understand, as a narcissist, being told that he could be the most important president that ever lived. It’s obvious to me that that’s what’s being whispered in his ear to get him to just sign onto stuff that he in the past would have understood was politically damaging in the extreme."

She used the word "neo feudalism" which exactly captures the direction they'd like to go. All the wealth, freedom, and choice at the top, draconian burdens at the bottom where people struggle to survive in a culture of oppression and barriers at every turn to excel and succeed.

R365, thanks for posting that it. It’s very sharp. For me, the most disturbing and convincing thing is its observation that Trump used to know when to declare victory and back down. Now he doesn’t understand what’s going on. He knows bad things are happening but he’s really clueless.

Not even two months in and Trump is already a failed president.

R360 I hate to disagree with you ElderLez, but nobody is worse than Trump! The most a traitorous cunt can hope for is to be equally bad, just in unique and different ways.

Vance might qualify in that respect.

R367, Trump 47 will likely dislodge Trump 45 as the worst president in history.

And to think… this all came about because people wanted to lay a dollar less for eggs.

Hotline

Hah pay @ r370.

I do sort of love the idea of laying dollars for eggs. Seems appropriate somehow.

Can we now start buying egg "loosies," one at a time? And is it something that would get us hassled by the cops?

R368 I am sure we can respectfully agree to disagree on this.

This is rich. Thank you, Toronto Star.

The Pimp family fortune.

I assume that will become a kind of national shrine r376, dedicated to all the crimes and stupidities of the Trump clan through the years. At least, it should be.

Trump spits on the graves of Blacks, Hispanics and women who fought and died for the country.

Tump pals, Netanyahu and Orban, are hooking up.

Trump would flunk a cognitive test. It should be mandatory every year for presidents of a certain age - old.

Shouldn’t she have at least one town hall gathering in South Carolina before proposing changes to Social Security eligibility? Nawh, it’s Lindsey Graham. While the media fawns over her, they wouldn’t dare ask her such a question.

Judge reversed firing orders for probationary federal workers. Parks Service, IRS, and others will get jobs back.

Great news!

^ Good, eat shit, Elon!

Alas, it’s only a district court judge.

Tump and Musk are so narcissistic and callous, they show no empathy for the pain they have inflicted on their victims. Money, selective praise, power, vindictiveness, and control, are all that matter to Trump and Musk.

It will all come crashing down.

True, r384, but since the idiot has fired all the lawyers at DOJ, there’s no one to file an appeal or show up to argue the case.

Womp fucking womp

R385 In a plane.

Judge James Bredar says "hold my beer."

"He ordered 18 federal agencies to reinstate probationary workers fired through what he called "illegal RIFs" by Monday at 1 p.m. Eastern daylight time, for a period of 14 days.

During that time, he said, the court would likely consider longer relief.

Bredar's order covers probationary employees nationwide, not just those in states named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

The sweeping list of agencies include some not covered by other rulings, including the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, and Homeland Security, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency and the General Services Administration."

Sylvia, this news has made my day!!

R389 My work is done here.

Heh: "When Vice President JD Vance took his seat Thursday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, he was met with a chorus of boos from the packed concert hall. Vance and the second lady, Usha Vance, were attending a performance by the National Symphony Orchestra, which was already seated onstage when the crowd spotted the pair and erupted into loud boos and shouts for more than 30 seconds."

[quote]Enjoy These Videos Of Republicans Getting Treated Like Sh*t And Deserving It

No peace for the amoral and lawless. Never!

Usha looks like a “Commander’s wife” from The Handmaid’s Tale. She will eventually be taken to “the Wall” as a POC once the hardcore years arrive.

FCI, I’ve been absent from this thread for a couple of weeks. I was mourning Demi’s Oscar loss for an entire week (yes, I had a lot emotionally invested in her winning and it was like the only thing I had to look forward to!)

But I’m back. The mood here in D.C. is very tense and edgy especially with all the federal worker fuckery. People are PISSED and I have several friends who are unexpectedly jobless all of a sudden. One of my neighbors lost her job via the USAID stuff, cannot pay her mortgage, and now must get on a waiting list in order to rent out her condo. This is a very competent woman. But not everyone has a security cushion of cash to get through an emergency such as this.

On that note, I recommend that people continue to withdraw cash from their accounts and hoard the cash at home. Do it every so often. I’ve been making two trips to the ATM per week. I would also recommend, besides purchasing a safe, investing in what I will call secret or discreet safes (household products with a false bottom kind of thing) and having those hiding in plain sight just in case. Amazon has a bunch of options.

FCI, I purchased a bunch of MRE food because of you!

I don’t have anything new to share but the idea of Trump and Elon going to Fort Knox chills me to the bone.

I have experienced (second-hand) that many Trump-supporting family members are afraid of contacting me. They are afraid to hear the truth. This is good. They know they have made a bad choice and things are turning too quickly for them. They are SCRAMBLING. The cult is not getting great messaging suggestions from their Fox handlers and you can tell.

Judges are getting threats for ruling against Trump

A Republican town hall meeting erupted in a furious showdown after Rep. Chuck Edwards’ (R-NC) Asheville constituents grilled him over President Donald Trump’s foreign policy and Ukraine dealings — before the chaos spilled into the streets with protesters chanting: “Deport Musk!”

It all started when an audience member hit the congressman with a barrage of blunt questions.

“Do you support the annexation of Canada and/or Greenland?” he asked. “Do you like the way he treats the premier or the president of Canada, calling him ‘governor’? Is that the way you’d do as a diplomat? Is that, is that the way the United States should act to our closest neighbors?”

“You have nothing to say but lies,” a man shouted, prompting laughter and cheers from the audience. “You’re lying. I’m a veteran, you don’t give a fuck about me.”

How is hoarding cash going to help when Donald is tanking the dollar? And who wants to be dependent on MREs? They have to be packed full of deleterious shit.

Yes, r389, because if there’s a bank run, you will already HAVE cash to buy gas and food.

Thanks for the update, DCgay. Do you honestly think that the maggots are started to get spooked or are feeling the pain of their stupidity?

Aside from some TikTok videos, I haven’t seen or heard any maggots around here (Ohio) who are the least bit upset by the stock market tanking, the talk of recession or the high prices.

Idiots are still driving around with their maggot shit everywhere and flying their stupid flags.

[quote]How is hoarding cash going to help when Donald is tanking the dollar?

Do you have chickens?

As of March 14, 2025, the melt value of silver is approximately $32.78 per ounce.

I might be walking grannie's silver to the smelter...

R399, I meant more that the MAGAts are feeling the pain of being shut out or iced by normal people. “The White Lotus” had a really great scene recently that addressed this. It went viral.

This is only anecdotal and about my own family, but no matter how “Fuck your feelings!” they are, they really don’t want to be pariahs and are desperately trying to get back in with me and pretend everything is normal.

R398, you don’t seem like an honest broker and I’m not answering any of your questions. Go Google it.

Insane Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Ukraine Involved In Human Organ Trafficking

He's turned the oval office into a tacky gilded palace.

R402, have they found her brain?

Chuck Schumer must have been promised something from Trump. Wonder what it could be?

Thanks, r401.

I hate to sound cynical, but their entire existence is precluded on “owning the libs”. If there aren’t any “libs” around to “own”, they get the sads and try to worm their way back in to polite society just to show their fucking asses again.

It’s not about wanting to be a part of a family. It’s not about missing you. It’s about finding someone to torment, hate and shit on. An “easy target” to attack to make themselves feel better.

That’s just who these people are and they do NOT DESERVE our love,, compassion or support.

Fuck them. They can hate with the cunts they threw everything away for - their fellow maggots.

Supposedly Anonymous posted a video about taking down chuck schumer? I'm baked like a cake so it’s feeling very matrix-y to me:

Let’s not take down Chuck Schumer. It’s very important that the government workers that have to be re-hired under the 14 day TROs be rehired and that the USAID funds get released that won’t happen under a shutdown. He did the right thing.

Anyone who is encouraging us to fight each other rather than fighting fascism is unhelpful.

Go Hungary!

Fox News is now naming judges who have ruled against Trump to get their nutty fanbase to attack those people

What about me?

I despise Gym Jordan. And Maria Bartilofuckface is a real cunt!

Although this is sickening reporting, this irresponsible "journalism" is going to infuriate and embolden judges to put the screws to these MAGA cretins. Bring it on.

I just read that Trump has moved a lot of gold figurines and statues into the Oval Office.

Indeed, R414. The Oval now looks as tacky as the orange one's Trump Tower residence:

It is now the official WH gift shop.

He's so fucking tacky.

No wonder maggots love him. He's just as tacky and tasteless as they are

Even JD is thinking, bitch, that's some tacky ass taste you puked up all over this room, and I'm supposed to be the fucking hillbilly. Mamaw would be embarrassed for you.

If by some miracle, we ever get our country and democracy back, and Drump is out of The White House for good, they should either burn it down (my vote), or completely fumigate it and turn it into a museum similar to the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles.

They should construct a brand new White House somewhere.

[quote]They should construct a brand new White House somewhere.

They're only using the Kennedy Center now for mock crucifixions, so maybe they could relocate there.

President Donald Trump claimed that former President Joe Biden's preemptive pardons of members of the Jan. 6 Select Committee and others were "void, vacant, and of no future force of effect."

Trump in a post to his Truth Social network went on to say that members of that House committee are "subject to investigation at the highest level" and baselessly accused them of being responsible for their own pardons, without Biden's knowledge.

Making his claim about the pardons, Trump cited alleged use of an autopen during Biden's administration.

The New York Times over the weekend estimated that Trump will kill more than 3 million people a year by dismantling USAID. Among the deaths:

- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS

- 500,000 children from lack of vaccines.

- 550,000 lives lost to hunger.

- 290,000 deaths from malaria as mosquito nets and treatments go unfunded.

- 310,000 deaths from tuberculosis without access to medication.

All to cut 0.3% of federal spending.

chuck was right. the damage that would be done under the cover of a shutdown, would be absolutely devastating. he was right to do this, otherwise he would have ben a party to their stated goal of shutting down the government.

i mean, chuck is a wimp, it’s just this time he was right, though it thoroughly demoralized house dems.

ducked up situation no matter how you look at it.

R422, the Plantation Owners don't care as they don't spend money that doesn't turn a profit.

Just like Trump bad mouthing expensive vaccines that were given away free, while hawking profitable snake oils of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin.

Did Trump turn a profit while he was killing sick Americans?

Judd Legum posted on his daily feed a leaked memo from Dudek to Diaz intending to operationally cripple the Social Security Administration. 12% immediate cut to personnel, making more and more people come into fewer and fewer offices in person to activate payments, etc.

R421 Trump's complaint won't go anywhere, presidents have been using auto pens for years.

It better not R426. In this current environment, it wouldn't surprise me if it suddenly becomes an issue.

I have posted this before, time for a reminder:

Fascist dictators can only become fascist dictators by enslaving their people with poverty, illness, violence, and terror. It’s how they overcome our resistance. That’s why Trump, Elon, and Putin are doing this to us. They can only win by Making America Weak, Sick, and Poor.

Fascist dictators can only become fascistic dictators by attracting willing executioners who enable their dictatorship. They can only win when they are all destroyed by their own hubris, and people rising up against them.

Correction: they can only lose when they are all destroyed by their own hubris, and people rising up against them.

[quote]"If Putin plays with Trump, he will regret it", - Senator Graham

Are you talking about Trump’s mushroom headed, micro tallywhacker, Miss Lindz?

Fuck off, Miss Thang, or I’ll drop some Kompromat I have on you to the dead bird.

MAGA =

Mass

American

Graves

Ahead

Make Segregation Great Again!

"Several U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks, easing pressure on Moscow as the Trump Administration pushes Russia to end its war in Ukraine.

The FBI last month ended an effort to counter interference in U.S. elections by foreign adversaries including Russia and put on leave staff working on the issue at the Department of Homeland Security. The Department of Justice also disbanded a team that seized the assets of Russian oligarchs."

I will never forget the look Trump had after leaving his first meeting with Putin -- he looked absolutely defeated. I've not seen that expression on his face before or since.

^^^JFC!

DJT is a Russian asset. He has been so for decades. It is deeper than that. He behaves as if he is a bonafide agent. Trump aims to please Putin. Trump’s track record will not deviate from that allegiance.

Putin speaks the same language that Fred Trump taught Donald.

Vladimir is a father figure Deictator.

Trump is owned by 2 villains: Putin and Musk. And Dems need to say this 1,000 times a day in any public forum they get.

Fucker Carlson and Don Jr. are trying to organize a putsch in Ukraine

R439, The View had on Kara Swisher last week, she referred to Trump as a "coin operated POTUS."

Has anyone commented about his latest EO? He's tossing the financial responsibility for disaster response back to the states. He can't legally abolish FEMA without Congressional approval yet he's doing his darndest to disable the the agency.

I imagine many a Trump supporter will be underwater both figuratively and literally when the next hurricane hits. The losses in red states will be insurmountable with small towns going under by the hundreds. What's the point of states like NJ who pay the most into the system yet receive the least in financial assistance, continuing to fund exactly what? We'll take care of ourselves while we watch the south fall yet again. Yee Haw!

If you’re ever up a tree don’t call me

If you’re ever fingering your asshole count me out

If you ever want to pee I’m calling the cops

Wait till people start to realize what measles can do to an unvaccinated child.

This is too funny.

Maga wear prices on rise as Myrtle Beach’s biggest Trump retailers hit by China tariffs

You all are NEVER going to believe this!

I was listening to the classic rock station and they just ran a commercial for Newsmax. The ad said that Elon has called Social security a "Ponzi scheme" and he plans to cut benefits!

I nearly fell out!

The ad went on to say that "it's your money, not a Ponzi scheme" and to tune in to someone's show as he talks details and how to stop it

What the actual fuck reality check just happened?

R445. he's been saying that for weeks and he wonders why people are protesting at TESLA dealerships, vandals are spray painting swastikas on the cars, setting the cars on fire, vandalizing charging stations, the stock is in freefall and the company has lost almost a trillion in value.

He thought tormenting and terrorizing federal workers on Twitter (fuck X) was fun. He had a blast wielding that chainsaw at CPAC. Now that the tables have turned, he's crying on FOX about future assassination attempts and he has bought-and-sold Trump using his best Earl Scheib impression trying to sell fucking cars at the White House.

Let's see how much worse it gets for this buy-a-prez bully when the seniors go after his ass. You reap what you sow.

Three million dead a year projected from the cuts to USAID.

Can you imagine that? Three million horrific deaths a year, all of them your doing?

It’s a start, ElderLiz.

Extreme Makeover: USA Edition.

I noticed another very disturbing trend. There have been TikToks circulating on Facebook depicting Elon's kid, how cute he is, what a great dad Elon is, and....get this.......cute videos of Drump playing with the kid. Portraying Drump in "a more human light" or some ridiculous propaganda.

People are sharing them like they're those Dodo Animal Videos An old lady friend of mine sent them to me, and she texted "You know I hate Trump, but this kid is so cute!"

All I saw was obvious manipulation to try to make Elon and Trump NOT look like the horrible evil CUNTS they are!, not to mention child exploitation.

All seeded and paid for by Elon’s PR agency?

Most likely, r451. Or a bot farm he bought from the Russians at fire sale prices

JD VANCE

The latest sociopathic gem from the in-utero druggie: “How are you doing the job differently than Kamala did it?” Coglianese asked.

“Well, I don’t have four shots of vodka before every meeting. That’s one way I think that Kamala really tried to bring herself into the role is these word salads and I think I would need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer a question the way that Kamala Harris answered questions,” Vance replied.

You don't need to be juiced up, JD. Your alky Hillbilly mama gave you that everlasting gift when you were in her womb.

Unpresidented.

R454, during the nomination process Kash Patel swore under oath he would follow tradition and appoint a company man (FBI agent) to the role of Deputy Director. He lied and appointed this far-right psycho. Now we have two men who will do Trump's bidding who have zero connections/loyalty to the job or the department.

With the Department of Education gone, the coast is clear for a rollback of universal K-12 education and anti-child labor laws. Guess who's going to be filling in for all those migrant workers they're driving out of the country?

OMG, is that real, R453?

R453, yes, he said that.

R456, our future work force on their lunch break...

R445, I've heard these ads too. Newsmax actually being anti-Trump. (Well anti-Musk, but it's the same)

Trump is just engaging in extortion out in the open

French scientists denied entry to US because of phone messages that were critical of Trump

War with China?!!!

What the fuck?!!!

R461, our tax dollars at work. Latest dictator move: Trump Admin Arrests FBI Agent Who Went After Rudy Giuliani. They grabbed him at JFK as he was about to board a flight.

We're not going to go to war with China

Chairman Musk is working for China R462.

I thought we were going to war with Iran?

[QUOTE] Trump Admin Arrests FBI Agent Who Went After Rudy Giuliani.

Arrested them for what?

You are being too logical for this "administration", R467. Goulianni should be arrested for just having to look at him.

R467, I wrote that comment. I just went to find the article to link here and this is what I found.

There are many reputable news outlets with the same story, but the AP removed their article, so I'll refrain from linking until there is further clarification.

I've noticed that Trump's face looks uglier by the day. Maybe he's turning into a gargoyle.

That shipped decades ago, r470.

Putin's wish list, and Trump's right there checking off his demands.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

The GOP knows that a blue wave is coming.

But then there’ll be Musk to the rescue, buying voters to thwart a blue wave, R474.

That bitch is gonna be broke and crying in daddy’s lap, r475.

He’s already a fat, blubbering mess.

Musk's Dad Tries To Prove He's Not Racist By Making Things So Much Worse For Elon

R475, Musk dumped $3M into Wisconsin to back R candidates. I suppose he will eventually do the same in all 50 states.

He's also donating to all the Rs in Congress who agree federal judges should be impeached.

We are seriously at a tipping point in this country.

If we haven’t already tipped irretrievably to the other side, R478.

Remember Trump's $5M gold card visa? That ass-kisser Lutnick just bragged they've sold $5B worth of visas in one day. I'll bet there was zero vetting, and the overwhelming majority of these assholes are up to no good. No foreign prison for them though.

I also noticed Cantor Fitzgerald upgraded Tesla to a BUY. Yeah, okay. Lutnick is their former chairman. He stepped down in order to take the cabinet position of Commerce Secretary. He was also on the news last week trying to hawk Tesla shares to the public. One billionaire after another sent out by Trump to lift up Musk as his company continues to lose market share at an alarming rate.

Meanwhile that asshole Trump is now calling any violence against Tesla domestic terrorism. I wonder how it would be considered terrorism against the US government when they keep saying Musk is not a government employee. I hope they hang themselves on this one.

"Wisconsin voters will now get $100 if they agree to oppose "activist judges" from a group supported by Elon Musk after the tech billionaire reportedly pledged $100 million more to the Trump agenda."

"The PAC founded by Musk, America PAC took to X on Thursday, offering voters the opportunity to make their dissent against these "activist judges heard."

"Voters who sign a petition on their website ahead of the contested Wisconsin Supreme Court race will be given a "special offer" of $100 for signing. They can make an additional $100 for "each signer they refer."

So, what can be done about all this? Impeach? (Yeah, we've heard that song before). Lawsuits? (A stacked SC has already granted him immunities and would likely go in his favor). Arrest? (Can't arrest a sitting president; and Trump would just pardon Musk).

Seriously, what can legally be done about this? What are people wanting Congress to do? It's great to see all of these demonstrations, but if Musk influenced the voting machines during the election, what's to say he won't do the same during the midterms?

Sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but I'm looking for some hope.

What exactly is going on here? This man is running the country.

Protests in Tennessee outside Marsha Blackburn’s office. A Constitutional scholar, she is not. Same with Tommy Tuberville.

r483, Elon's been sniffing the glue that was supposed to be used to stick on those cybertruck panels (source: LBC host Nick Abbott)

Tommy Tuberville pastes biblical verses to X rather than speak to political concerns.

As his constituents are evangelicals, haven’t they already heard about Matthew during Sunday school and worship services?

We need to get to where we can impeach the corrupt Supreme Court justices when Trump is gone.

R483, I find it more interesting to watch Karoline Leavitt try to kiss up to Musk while what looks to be her Daddy-husband watches on. This one fucked up administration. She's another hypocrite who had her baby before they married yet...Leavitt is a Roman Catholic and credits her Catholic schooling for instilling pro-life values, discipline, and the importance of public service. All of Trump's female staff always sound as if they're answering a pageant question.

HE HAS GOT TO GO: "According to a report from CNN, the Trump administration is seeking corporate sponsors for the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn, a first for the event that has run since 1878.A pitch document obtained by the outlet said that sponsorship costs range from $75,000 to $200,000. For their money, sponsors were offered naming rights, branded signage and Easter baskets and mentions by the Trump administration in press releases and on social media."

Very good use of taxpayers' money:

Usha's probably just looking for an excuse to get away from JD

Jesus fucking god, what a fucking flap of rancid cunts!

There is a US military base in northern Greenland. Is Usha visiting there? Greenland residents weren’t happy seeing Don Jr. visit. What does Usha plan to do there? Fish?

Fucking nuts. I hate all these stupid people. Ignorant assholes.

My condolences to Greenland

Trump is bitching about a portrait of him hanging in the Colorado State Capitol building. He feels it's an unflattering rendering and is demanding they take it down. This is the shit dictators are made of.

[quote]Trump is bitching about a portrait of him hanging in the Colorado State Capitol building. He feels it's an unflattering rendering and is demanding they take it down.

Imagine Obama doing that.

"Trump is bitching about a portrait of him hanging in the Colorado State Capitol building. He feels it's an unflattering rendering and is demanding they take it down."

Its not a rendering. It's a mirror.

Notice that there is no more news about the daily horrors of DOGE?

They have figured out if they let people know what they are doing, they end up in Court.

They learned the Fox lesson, no news no Court.

DOGE is still very much an active and alive topic here in D.C. I’ll tell you that.

They are still writing NIH grant award special terms and conditions and having a person in the policy office with no authority to do so sign them on behalf of the GMO which is whack.

Rump will start selling off the US. Doing what businesses have done for eons, sell off shit to make money

Alaska to the Russia

Florida and Hawaii to China (he’ll move/stay in NJ or NY)

r500, not on Fox. Not outside the East Coast.

What is happening with Social Security?

Hi everyone, this is OP. We’re creeping up on 600 posts, so I’m prepping the next thread. Just to let you all know, apparently, some (probably one) MAGA) has scoobied out that I’m the OP of the Treason threads and is FF’ing me with their sock puppets. Every time I post a new thread, or an anti-Dump post, I’ve been getting a 48-hour time out. It’s incredibly frustrating, and of course, TPTB don’t care/take any action.

Has this happened to anyone else? I would imagine FCI, or other frequent posters, might also be getting frequent time outs. I don’t know if there’s any recourse. I’ll continue to post new threads but I’m getting really tired of getting time outs because I’m calling out Dump and his antics. Any ideas re what we can do?

OP/ r505

Post over here:

I was going to, r506 ( did post something minor that has nothing to do with Dump), but I think that thread will be deleted once Muriel sees it. A previous similar topic was deleted. DL’s owners don’t like any threads that point this stuff out, so I’m expecting my post at r505 to be removed some day. But I guess it doesn’t hurt to point this stuff out.

r507, I am the OP for numerous threads with many parts. I also have threads on my watcher that I constantly watch, like the Treason Threads. If I see a Thread that has not had a continuation set up by r 575, I will ask if I can set up a continuation thread. I have done this numerous times and afterward the original OP usually picks up the next thread. We are truly a cooperative here, since Sumerian times.

In the name of Marduk!

Busy little butt hurt sock puppets

I've been sent to DL prison as well, OP

Someone will be free to start the next thread, I'm sure

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Let’s be real honest. There are parts of the Democratic Party that really blew it for us, and that’s going to make it harder to win back the House in 2026. But we can do it. Yes, we can. If it’s going to happen, it’s going to be because of crowds like this—not just you as a crowd, but each and every one of you getting to work. Not just coming to this rally, but figuring out: What am I going to do between now and 2026 when it’s time to get out the vote and win back the House?

The next G7 summit in June, in Canada, should be interesting. Will Drumpf attend? Would he be allowed to enter Canada? He is a CONVICTED FELON after all.

Pete Hegseth is running a tight ship over at DoD: The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally included in a Signal group chat with top Trump administration officials, where top-secret war plans related to Yemen were shared.

r503, if only Chuck Schumer had voted against that CR! Putin, Elmo, the entire Trump administration would have been brought to its knees!

[quote]The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally included in a Signal group chat with top Trump administration officials, where top-secret war plans related to Yemen were shared.

But her emails!

Thanks all, no worries, I can start the next thread. Just don’t expect to hear from me for 48 hours afterward.

Tread lightly, OP!!!!

Can we counteract the FFs OP might receive by giving WWs?

91 years-old, walks with rigidity yet still finds the agility to bend over for Trump.

We'll leave the light on for ya, r515!

Well, this seems perfectly legit:

A government contractor and lobbyist who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration bought Vice President JD Vance’s Virginia home for $1.9 million—about $170,000 over the asking price.

No word on whether the couch was included.

I want to know what the mummified corpse Grassley said in response to that very good question at R518. With luck, he dropped dead before he could open his mouth.

We buy sled dogs from Greenland for my son with profit.

Chuck Grassley doesn’t want to meet with fussy Iowans.

He wants to continue being the most elder gentleman caller. It keeps him spry.

R521, it is odd they cut it before he could respond. The entire town hall is online, I saw a video that showed a runtime of 59:00 but I didn't link it here because I assumed no one would want to wade through it all.

The march toward fascism continues. WaPo:

President Donald Trump’s crackdown on lawyers is having a chilling effect on his opponents’ ability to defend themselves or challenge his actions in court.

Biden-era officials said they’re having trouble finding lawyers willing to defend them. The volunteers and small nonprofits forming the ground troops of the legal resistance to Trump administration actions say that the well-resourced law firms that once would have backed them are now steering clear.

The result is an extraordinary threat to fundamental constitutional rights of due process and legal representation — and a far weaker effort to challenge Trump’s actions in court than during his first term.

r525, Bezos needs to step up sooner than later or else he will have nobody to sell his shit to.

I posted this on the Uprising Thread and I might as well post it here:

So far I have 6 months of cash for bills, six months of food, six months of water.

But when Trump takes down the internet and Skylink takes down telecommunications, what will be the best way for people to contact people locally?

Is it time to buy a CB Radio?

TIA

Or sham radio, r527.

Those are open lines of communication, tho. Just FYI.

Since Radio Shack is gone, you will have a helluva time finding parts

*HAM RADIO, you dumb autocorrect cunt!

DeJoy, USPS Postmaster General and Trump mega donor just retired. You may recall he was installed in June of 2020 by Trump in order to hinder mail-in votes for the 2020 election.

Trump wants to privatize USPS, so I suppose DeJoy's work is done. Now that he's weakened them, Trump will move on to phase II. He can't Sharpie up another EO for this one, but, when has that ever stopped Trump,

What are the pros and cons of the Citizen's Band radio and the sham Ham Radio,?

When the Internet and broadcast go silent , what are the alternatives

Ham Radio

[quote]People use ham radio to talk across town, around the world, or even into space, all without the Internet or cell phones. It's fun, social, educational, and can be a lifeline during times of need. You can set up a ham radio station anywhere!

Can Jewish people use ham radios?

I just got out of a timeout. What’d I miss?

[quote]r534 = I just got out of a timeout. What’d I miss?

Just the usual sturm und drang, FCI...

This is so frustrating, FCI. I just got out of a time out Sunday for who knows what the hell.

R536 I get in a lot lately. Sorry, OP. The trolls and KKKlangrannies hate the Treason threads because they can’t troll here.

R527 Good job!

Ham radio? Great suggestion.

Dems flipped a Trump +15 state senate district in PA

Hopefully, R539, that bodes well for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race next week. On the other hand, Democrats of late do better in special, off-year & midterm elections than they do in presidential elections.

R540 Why are people saying that? We won every election since ‘17-‘21. We had the best midterms in ‘22 since FDR’s first midterm. We gained a seat in the House last year. The Senate was expected to be lost. Dotard won dubiously. So, we had 3 very good election cycles in a row, did very well in off year elections from ‘17-‘23, and had one lousy cycle last year.

I meant to add we won the popular vote 7 of 8 times since 2000, won in ‘08, 12, ‘20. 3 of the last 5 presidential elections, or 5 of the last 9.

This is getting scary. Ever since Paul Weiss Firm caved to Trump other firms are afraid to represent those whom Trump has a grudge against (which is everyone.) This is how dictators operate by fear and intimidation.

His latest target: "Trump Seeks Revenge on MSNBC Legal Analyst in New Executive Order"

"A few weeks after targeting another firm which had re-hired a lawyer who had worked in the Manhattan district attorney’s office during its investigation into Trump, the president singled out Jenner & Block. A primary reason: it once employed Andrew Weissmann, a current MSNBC legal analyst and former deputy to Robert Mueller, the special counsel who led an investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia." Weissmann is a “bad guy,” Trump griped at the White House Tuesday. The executive order he signed stated that Jenner & Block’s hiring of Weissmann was “entirely unjustified.” The firm “has abandoned the profession’s highest ideals,” it added.

"Many big firms “take actions that threaten public safety and national security, limit constitutional freedoms, degrade the quality of American elections, or undermine bedrock American principles,” the order stated."

'It went on to criticize firms for doing pro bono work."

HE IS INSANE.

ANOTHER DICK-TATOR MOVE - Trump officials invoke ‘state secrets’ in bid to avoid sharing deportation information

While U.S. District Judge James Boasberg shines a light on whether the Trump administration violated his orders on deportations, the government just attempted a legal version of a blackout. Invoking the “state secrets” privilege, the Justice Department told Boasberg that he has all the facts he needs and that the privilege invocation “forecloses further demands for details that have no place in this matter.”

“The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided,” the DOJ wrote in Monday’s filing, arguing that the information the judge wants is subject to the privilege “because disclosure would pose reasonable danger to national security and foreign affairs.”

DANGER TO NATIONAL SECURITY, LOL. AFTER HEGSETH'S FUCK-UP? WHAT A JOKE.

What is wrong with doing pro bono work? That is so crazy!! He was going on and on the other day - I thought - wouldn’t it be fantastic if someone in the press corp said”Good God you are boring!!” Can you imagine the look on his face? ……. For about 2 weeks now I can’t see my posts. Even on old posts my are missing. I have posted on Datalounge for more than 10 years - this has never happened. I wondered if it is because I have made fun of the Orange One. I don’t think I am on ignore. It is just frustrating to not know why I have gone invisible.

R545, check to see if you accidentally put yourself on IGNORE.

Now they're trying to kill energy projects in the blue states

The grift is real with this motherfucker (excuse my language.) This is how he and his billionaire buds will pillage the US Treasury.

Donald Trump Issues Executive Order for 'America's Bank Account'

"Trump's latest executive order, titled "Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse," aims to give the Treasury Department greater power and control to ensure these transactions are properly recorded and managed."

"The government said maintaining the infrastructure and technology for digitizing paper records costs taxpayers more than $657 million in fiscal 2024."

WOW $657M. That's a drop in the bucket compared to his $4T gift in tax cuts. This is how he consolidates his grift with a little help from his fellow billionaires (16 and counting in his cabinet, not counting Musk.)

Bump Where is everybody? FCI? Doris?

Have you all been timed out? (and if you have I guess you can't respond to this).

I’m still here. ::little voice::

I finally fucked my Cap Hill source but it was in the dark room at the Crew Club on a half-priced Tuesday night and there were a lot of guys there so couldn’t get any good inside intel. Hoping to follow up with him sometime soon. I’ll bring whatever I find out to this thread.

According to the American Church of Capitalism, pro bono work constitutes the sin of socialism and is contrary to the will of God, who gives wealth only to the deserving.

Today's Head on A Platter? NPR AND PBS. Trump is pulling funding like a good little dictator. Shutting down any and all dissenting opinions of the free press.

r552, PBS and NPR haven't been voices of dissent since the Nixon era.

Well, Trump thinks anyone who says anything even moderately critical of him is the enemy, so...

Have you guys discussed this one: Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away from Housing, Toward Forced Treatment. He wants to set up camps, round up the homeless and force them into treatment centers. It's the forced roundup that sounds a bit internment campish.

R553, if someone mocks his latest foundation application or his hair (seriously thinning up top) they're considered voices of dissent.

Touchy dictator is touchy.

Trump always shifts and dodges for a policy, internment camps, to find the right group he can use IT ON FIRST.

DOGE Cuts Update Today: 69 Programs Expected to Be Eliminated. Of course it's about child labor. Do take a guess if you think this admin is pro or con.

"Sixty-nine programs that combat child labor and forced labor abroad are reportedly set to be cut after the Trump administration canceled more than $500 million in grants allocated to them."

"John Clark, a Labor Department official, directed the agency's Bureau of International Labor Affairs to end all of its grants, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post."

"The terminated grants include congressionally authorized ones that allocate funding to nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations tackling child labor and forced labor in agriculture in Mexico, labor abuses in the garment industry in Southeast Asia and human rights abuses in fisheries in South America." The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) praised Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Deputy Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday for canceling "$577M in 'America Last' grants" that it said would yield $237 million in savings."

"The Solidarity Center, an international labor rights organization, said it had received termination notices for most of the grants it receives and expected remaining notices soon."

"The cuts threaten "to unravel decades of progress in combating forced and child labor, human trafficking and exploitation around the world," the organization said in a statement on Thursday."

HHS to Cut 10,000 Workers. They are busy little bees.

"The HHS said the cuts are in addition to the 10,000 employees who have left their jobs by taking early retirement or the Trump administration's buyout offer and will decrease its workforce from 82,000 to 62,000 positions."

"The majority of the cuts will come from public health agencies. The Food and Drug Administration will lose about 3,500 workers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will cut about 2,400 positions, and the National Institutes for Health will lose 1,200 workers."

The America’s Bank executive order says Treasury is to stop issuing and accepting virtually all paper checks by October 1st. There is an exception for people who can’t get access to EFT accounts, but how will that be determined? How will they prove it?

There have got to be over a million 80+ year old rural Social Security recipients who won’t have access to rapidly closing Social Security offices, understand EFT accounts, or even have Internet access (especially since Congresses‘s rural access legislation is being Ignored).

Millions more in cities are partially disabled.

Will their checks just stop?

How many of those geezers VOTED FOR THIS? Plenty.

They thought they could hurt everyone else and not be affected.

Idiots haven’t figured out it’s not a race war, it’s a CLASS WAR and they are not in the wealthy ranks.

They need to wake the fuck up and get with the program.

I don’t want to get my hopes up, but he really is looking (more) awful lately.

R560, I find it interesting the first SS office location closures were targeted in the south and the southeast. I would think they'd be more reliant on brick-and-mortar locations than other parts of the country. Trump and the gay defector Treasury Secretary are setting up the US Treasury Department to go digital. You know, to cut down on waste and fraud. Don's two favorite one syllable words.

R561, you should see how ecstatic they are with the deportation of the supposed gang members to that hellhole prison in ES. They don't care that these men were not given due process under the law. They don't understand Trump is doing this to see how far he can expand his powers. If he can do it to them, he can do it to anyone. As you said they seem to think they're exempt from his wrath that they're part of his team. If he ignores this judge's orders and gets away with this, he'll go after anyone he damn well pleases, citizen or not.

Treason thread #75 is up. I’m not banned yet!

Some Good News: Trump withdraws nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik for U.N. ambassador. Like they're going to hold the House in '26. Just going by those incredibly pissed off R seniors, I'd say that's a no.

r563, we stand them up against the wall and POP goes the weasel!

I'm here I'm just so discouraged by all of this. It's sickening.

DCGay- I got plenty of tail in my days in DC (Obama years), but you seem to do well yourself! I had the scurrilous pastel belted one check me out once. Tempted, but no.

Really dishy discussion about Gay Republicans. It gets fun around the 14:20 mark when Rick Wilson trashes Matt Schlapp

Matt Schlapp needs a pie in the face like Anita Bryant

Here is Stuart Stevens article relating to R568

The point person enacting all this turmoil from the White House is Stephen Miller. H’s not always standing before the cameras, but he holds the strings and he pulls new ones each day.

Omg yes, I got so much gay Republican ass. I never dated one. There are so many closeted gays in DC it's ridiculous. I'm not exaggerating when I say it felt like over 50% of them were. I dished here in 2018 on some of my friends hooking up with a few GOP congressmen, one of them being Trey G. Ugh. Huge messy bottom.

R571, it's also Steve Bannon's playbook.

A couple of his quotes - “The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon told Lewis. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

“This is not about persuasion: This is about disorientation.”

R572, who else did they hook up with besides Miss Trey?

^ The GOP Congressional and Senatorial delegations from South Carolina?

The Palmetto Bottoms

Protests in Central Ohio ballroom. Republicans Senators & Congressmen are “no show”.

[quote] Organizers called the Saturday event a "town hall" and set empty chairs on stage for Ohio's Republican senators, Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted, who did not respond to organizers' invitations to attend. Moreno was at the Tuscarawas County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday.

Too bad, Ohio, you are getting exactly what you voted for.

In Missouri, Rep. Eric Burlison went virtual, avoided in-person appearance.

Tallahassee, Florida

Used car salesman Moreno hasn’t ONCE answered his goddamn phone and I’ve been calling every day for a month! (Except weekends and holidays)

Neither has that idiot, Husted. His VM had some staffer for three weeks before he finally recorddd his own message.

Guess it took that long to kiss Hair Furor’s fat ass

R574 Unless I misunderstood his post, FCI himself didn't hook up with Trey aka the Banjo Player in Deliverance.

Gosh, FCI, I hope not. I don't want to lose all the respect I have for you! :)

meh, sex is just sex sometimes. honestly, we all make way too much of it. but I do agree with you r581 that I don't think FCI was saying he actually had sex with the dread Trey.

Excuse me, could you please pass the dread Trey?

would you settle for a dutchie?

Trump just ended collective bargaining for the federal unions. He's trying to gut the unions.

Grassley wants Congress to halt universal injunctions, amid pushback to Trump orders. That son of a bitch saw how upset his constituents were yet here he is trying to help Trump wrest control of the judicial branch. You'd think at 91 he would be trying to mend his ways. Nope.

At 91, he's just thinking stay alive another day, and fuck everything else.

It's the rest of us that need to stop dicking around and give a fuck.

Just a reminder, fill up this thread before moving on to the next one.

we're trying honey.

Okay, since it's probably just me, I'm going to say, a few people are going off the deep end, it seems. I don't dislike anybody here, and I don't wish to attack anybody here, but I suspect some people are actually losing their minds. Going off the deep end. Things are bad, and will get worse, but some people are losing their ever loving shit.

That is all.

I still want to know the explanation for that horrified expression on Grassley's face when he walked out of that senate hearing along with Dianne Feinstein back in 2017.

I'm not searching for the link to post. I'm thinking most of you know which clip I'm talking about.

Trans Trey & Caitlyn help build Lachlan’s Fox News woke credibility.

Another institution caves, per the NYT:

The University of Michigan will eliminate its central diversity, equity and inclusion program, the school announced on Thursday.

Susan Collins is apparently beyond concerned:

Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, has accused President Trump of illegally refusing to spend $2.9 billion approved by Congress, teaming with Democrats in an early salvo in the simmering struggle between Congress and the White House over which has the ultimate power over federal spending.

Collins initiated a letter to the White House that was signed by Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the panel’s senior Democrat. The letter asserted that the administration had violated the six-month spending law approved by Congress earlier this month.

R585, Republicans used to LOVE the idea that a district court judge could issue a nation-wide injunction. Remember when they brought those anti-abortion lawsuits in front of one crazy judge in Texas?

Hillary writes a NYT Op-Ed:

How Much Dumber Will This Get?

If there’s a grand strategy at work here, I don’t know what it is. Maybe Mr. Trump wants to return to 19th-century spheres of influence. Maybe he’s just driven by personal grudges and is in way over his head. As a businessman, he bankrupted his Atlantic City casinos. Now he’s gambling with the national security of the United States. If this continues, a group chat foul will be the least of our concerns, and all the fist and flag emojis in the world won’t save us.

As if a protest is gonna stop anything at this point. Americans don't protest anymore. They're too busy thinking about themselves. Even you fussy faggots don't know how to do it anymore.

You won't be hurling any bricks. You just got a new Nivea cream treatment!

You won't be doing a sit-in at some evil corporation's offices. "The White Lotus" is on tonight, and you've got to see who sleeps with the bellhop!

You won't boycott. Generic items just aren't allowed in your house!

And who has time to read before voting? Unless the ballot contains Bowen Yang or the queens on Drag Race, you're not interested. Maybe if John McCain wore something FIERCE, you'd go vote, okay?

^^^^Matt Damon

R596, what on earth are you doing in this forum? You’ve totally got it wrong, in fact you’re describing the antithesis of the people on DL. And using the F word? Where the fuck do you think you are?

The trolls have discovered the treason threads, DL friends. Time to do our thing.

Let us not say goodbye, but farewell.

Bye for now! Thread out.